An ecodesign policy for improved environmental performance

Ecodesign aims at improving the environmental performance of our solutions over their entire lifecycle. It allows the emerging expectations of our stakeholders to be met, contributes to strengthening the competitiveness of our systems and solutions and reduces their lifecycle cost.

Lifecycle assessments support technical choices and Environmental Product Declarations provide customers with an in-depth view of impacts throughout the lifecycle. Extensive efforts have been made to rationalise and optimise practices across the technical platforms, which will help deploy lifecycle assessments in a more efficient and systematic way in the future.

In 2015, Alstom pursued deployment of environmental performance dashboards in line with its ecodesign policy. They allow to record and track the performance of Alstom solutions versus targets set in terms of noise reduction, energy efficiency and use of recyclable materials.

These dashboards are progressively deployed for urban trains and will be extended in the future to main lines trains and infrastructure solutions.

The monitored products are considered to be ecodesigned as per the latest Alstom ecodesign policy. To date, 17 solutions of the portfolio are considered ecodesigned. This indicator will be tracked and published on a regular basis.

Alstom is making constant efforts to reduce the energy consumption of its trains and systems. It is the first manufacturer to announce a commitment to reduce energy consumption of its transport solutions by 20% by 2020 (compared with baseline 2014). As of March 2017, Alstom has reduced the energy consumption of its portfolio by 11% compared to 2014.

To reach this target, Alstom has defined its energy action plan along 3 pillars :

Systematic of monitoring of solutions’performance;

Innovation for energy efficiency;

Collaboration with other actors of the value chain.

To reduce the energy consumption of existing systems, Alstom also provides services for energy efficiency which include energy mapping, to identify improvement areas and implementation of optimisation solutions, such as ecodriving tools, enhanced energy management systems, braking energy recovery, or energy storage.

Noise reduction

Noise is a key concern, crucial for acceptance of railway projects and to optimise passenger comfort. Alstom’s key solutions include:

A consequence of the latest ecodesign developments is that, on average, trains are now 92% recyclable and 97% recoverable (including energy recovery)

Putting passengers first – accessibility for all

New products offer large gangways and windows, reduced noise emissions, video-surveillance, new information systems and accessibility for all.

Accessibility is an important element of passenger comfort. Trains are designed to suit the users of tomorrow. Increased height of future passengers and the needs of ageing populations are already taken into account